 Hello, I'm back at it again. I know I have a problem, actually quite a few problems and this game seems to be one of them. And one that keeps coming back to haunt me again and again and again. It's actually not good, is it? But hey, these things happen. I'm going to do another short run before I start preparing for, you know, longer ones. This time around I think I'm going to go with the Cove. It's a place where last time I died, quite horribly too. Let's take some bandages, a skeletal key, medicinal herbs and a bunch of those just for good measure. Ready? Hi! So the Cove filled with aquatic monstrosities, which by the way, not pleasant at all, not at all. No, no, no. Now? Mmm, pelagic nightmares. Sounds dreadful. Hello! A bowl of water cupped in smooth stone. It's color looks slightly off. Mmm. Well, that did not do anything useful for me. Not really. Surprise, surprise. Hey guys. Lovely seeing you so surprised to see me. I'm going to try and end as much of a view as humanly possible. Let's see. Damn. My main target actually managed to get away from that. Let's see. Adrenaline Rush. Useful if I want to do this. I think I'm going to try and take care of this one. And it worked! Let's see. Rampart. Knockback 1. I don't want to do that. Yeah. X-Men Job. Spear Fishing. Ouch. Unpleasant. But hey, I have absolutely no problems concentrating all my art on that one. Again. Now you are just looking for a fight. Yes. Most impressive. Because he's guarding the bloody grouper. I can get to it. No worries. He'll be there soon enough. See? He's almost a goner already. Not before he does an unnecessary amount of damage to my poor little fellow arch. Without a healer. Kind of tough. But hey, at least I can remove the bleed. Delightful. Actually having this spell is very useful. I've never used it before. But it kind of helps out a lot. Wait, what? What was? Was I supposed to finish all the room battles? Right. Hey, I don't mind. I'm going to get 3000 gold for absolutely nothing. Perhaps a bit of a waste of resources. But hey, that was surprisingly bloodless. And hey, I leveled a bunch of guys. So that's good. Level one short. Why are my folks not cured? Has it not been a week? Hey, I can do another one. I have no problems. No problems whatsoever. Let's see then. Hmm. Can we take on something more difficult with my fellows? Can we? There we. Hmm. I think we might. Let's try. This quest involves camping, and camping requires firewood. Firewood is given automatically to you on appropriate quests. Camping gives here is a chance to recuperate while in the dungeon. When you are wounded or stressed and wish to camp, right click on the firewood in your inventory. Right. So I will need... Huh? Why is this not working? Did I encounter a bug? Let's try again. Oh, I'm picking with the... Yeah. I'm an idiot. Let's take 12 of those. Let's take... No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Three and... We'll take one, two. Another one of those. Hmm. Missing something am I? And sure, let's say two bottles of... Hollywater. And now everything is going to go to shite. 100% of room bottles. All right. This is not too scary, not too scary. Stars off well enough. And then we meet the Deadly Spiders. And God, monstrosities. Hmm. Ah, you are blighted, my friend. Now your body is cut to tiny pieces, thanks to Vassie, our mighty Helion. Now first we're going to go here. Actually, yeah, of course there's going to be a battle. But at least in the next three rooms there is no battle whatsoever. In fact, it's actually looking pretty good so far. We designed this. So, so far going well. Let's see. Ah, portrait. Lovely. A stack of literary treasures in an unlikely location. Uh-oh. Well, I expected that. But I did not know how to counter it. Uh-oh. Po- Tetanus. Oh, no. Tetanus was one of the bad ones, wasn't it? Yeah, anyway. Let's show blight at those little disgusting dead things. Shall I take one of them or try and take more of them? Let's do that for now. Hmm. A swine slasher looks to be a dead dasher, whatever that means. He did not die, however. And that actually was quite dreadful. Let's see. You die, little fellow. Ouch, leave Tien alone. That is uncalled for, totally unfair. No. Well, at least he's, yeah, at least he resisted. Let's see. That's what I'm doing. Don't you worry about me. Missed. Haha. But hey, so did I, so I can't really blame you, little piggy. Big piggy. Little piggy is that one. Why are the biggies here so big and large and intimidating, anyway? It's certainly unprofessional for a pig to be so large. Hmm. Excellent. This worked well. Success so clearly in view. An obvious emblem of dining table, then. It's nice to be food scraps around. We've still got the light on our side. Although, as you see, our mental condition is not too great in spite of the light. It's only to be expected, I guess. I'm, after all, in the darkest of dungeons. Going quite insane at this point. Give Miss Garte. You want? Okay. So which one will we take? Doesn't seem to matter much. Might as well take this. What do we have here? 600 gold. Yeah, a trap. Good job, Ito. Yours is always a most useful compatriot. And a picture, a painting, a portrait. Is it? Mostly doesn't seem that clear to me. But hey, if you say so, must be true. Please die. Thank you very much. That was good. That was exceptional. That was excellent. Good job, Ito. And this might have a bad effect on me. Well, it didn't poison me or anything, so I'm actually okay with it. Anti-venom. I got a bottle of anti-venom. Useful. So too will resistance. Ah, in a torch. In an unburned one, that. The match is struck. A blazing star is born. Uh-oh. And that'll be a little piggies. And, you know, a few big ones too. I think we've already had this battle a few times. So might as well try and kill as many of you as I can. This one is going to die thanks to the Blight's effect. And this one I hope to kill. I failed. Not fantastic. But hey, he didn't hit me. Fair enough. This one is dead as well. So far, things are going well. And that's when everything will go to hell. Hey, I even managed to make this rhyme. Hmm. I'm a wonderful human being. My my. I often wondered, why is there no more music in this game? No idea. Let's end you. Oh, you're still alive. Well, not for long. Ugh. This was not supposed to happen. Two points of damage completely unnecessary at that. Onyx. Let's go in the key. Hmm. Even more Onyx. Everything is looking up. I think we'll still may move one more time. Ouch. Need for food. Regain 5% health. Let's light another torch. Uh oh. A Brigham blood letter. He is a nasty one. But as he is nasty as the Fusiliere. Probably he can hit. He has this eye ability that is very annoying. And apparently the Fusiliere has one of those. Not fantastic. Hopefully now he'll die. The Blight is a powerful weapon. Let's see. Shall we make one of those bleed? Yeah, sure. This one bleeding and blighted. Shouldn't hold out for long. But let's, yeah, let's hit him one last time just to be sure. The bleeding. Bad. Good. This one should be dead soon enough. And I suppose now we can concentrate on killing this gigantic guy. Cocky. It's very cocky. A nice heal there. I mean two points. Sure, it's not much, but time to get a bit of a buff. Next turn I believe I'm going to totally destroy you, mate. Ouch. Well, I do feel punished now. Won't help you much, mate. Let's try and heal our old man-at-arms here. Let's see. A nice shot. Very solid. Even a nice cleave there. You're shooting me with a gun, mate. Rude. Exceptionally rude. Right. Now we've got to remove something. Hmm. First the boots. Can I just put them on? No? I can't. Can I? Unpleasant. Well, the medicinal herbs have to go and the 75 gold will go as well. Okay, I can do this. And surely it won't hurt me now. What? Another killing compartment. That's cool. Let's see. Well, I think now is actually a good time to use my firewood. But is it? Yeah. In tenuous firelight. An uneasy companionship. Camping consists of two parts, meal phase and skill phase. During the meal phase you choose how much they eat, which is a term in recovery. Make sure you have enough food. Yeah, fair enough. I'm actually going to just go with two, because I'll probably have to eat one more time. Or should I go with four? Yeah, let's go with four. What the hell. And now I suppose it's time to pick. Let's see. Plus 20% disease. Self-medicate. Reduce stress by 10%. Here 20%. How about your abilities? Wound care. Clean guns. Useful. Very useful. Let's see what you have. Reject the god. Reduce stress by 30%. All companions, if not religious, increase stress by 7%. If religious? Huh. I kind of like that. Are any of my companions religious? Let's see. Because she needs desperately stress reduction. And she's not religious. Are you? I suppose you are. Yeah, flagellant. I would put that with religion. Okay, we can always do the following. We can clean these guys' guns. Actually, that's even better. Bandit sense instruction. Yeah, awesome. Let's see. Five dodge tree speed. Or I can heal 15% of someone. I can, I suppose, do two things. Or I can even do no. Yeah, I can self-meditate. Medicate. Time cost three. Quite useful, actually. And I suppose I can simply do... So confusing. You know what? I'm going to reject the gods. No, I don't want to reject the gods. Yeah, but I do. Let's reject the gods. Okay, that was cool. Let's get on with it, shall we? Do I have anything? Awesome. Time to rest. Even so, I am at ease. Excellent. Her stress is down. Evidence, stress is up, kind of. But I'll make it work. Our provisions run low this journey. In radiance, may we find victory. Right. We've only had so many torches left, so we need to move quickly. A barrel that reeks of powerful liquors. Holy water? Nope. Okay, that was a waste of resources. Again, happens. I prefer to be safe sometimes. What are you, these gusting things? And how can I kill you all as quickly as possible? You creatures, horrifying me. Perhaps this will be enough. Ouch, don't mention me, you cretins. Oh no. Uh-oh. Oh. That was worse. That was better than I thought it would be. Wicked. Ouch. Oh no, he's blighted now. Mmm, wrong target. Should have killed him. Blight would have finished him anyway. That was just a bad play on my part. I want to heal his blight. That's why I did not take a shot. See, entirely logical. Plus that way, I will lose. Mind yourself, their overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. Yes, I do. Constantly. That's all I think of. Seriously. Holy water. Let's open up the bottles. Holy water. Holy water for everyone. Holy water for you. Holy water for you. Holy water for everyone. Oh, our friends will have lots of holy water. By the way, will I find out in the next episode of... You know what? I'm not going to finish that sentence. You can figure it out for yourself, mate. Nice shot. Actually, no. Uh-oh. Yeah, better to be rid of this one slasher. Just to be safe, I remember those things doing insane amounts of damage. And I'd better not have to deal with that. This one, pretty close to death. Not close enough. Unfortunately. You deserve to be blighted. You resisted that blight pretty well. You usually do swine chopper. Again, with the stress. Ouch. And this was unpleasant to say the least. Got a number of items to protect me, but at least those two will die next turn. Which means I only have this swine chopping fellow to whatever. And now I don't believe I have won. Hey, sure. I can use a heal. Please die now. Thank you. Excellent. Let's continue adventuring. Just to open this chest. Uh-oh. Well, it's all that's coming. Right. Quite a solid run. Nice. And I unlocked three achievements. Because I have no idea what any of them do. But the good thing is I'm totally back in the game. I just won more than 10,000 gold. Which is very good. Let's see. Oh, level three. Well done, either. Uh-oh. That's a disease. And that is kind of cool. Sounds cool. But annoying. Let's see what Ratman got. Oh, well. Let's not comment on that. Please, Vasly, tell me you've got something positive. No. No, you don't. Thank you. I feel totally hopeless now. And that's why... I remember days when the sun shone. And laughter could be heard from the tavern. You know, this game hates me. But I love it anyway. It's a love-hate relationship. And I'm having too much fun to stop. So if you'd like to see more, well, I'm looking forward to seeing you next time. Thanks for watching. My name's been Philip Magnus. Blah. Philip, actually. Not Philip. But if I was an imp, I would be a Philip. Hey, hey, bye.